Window or other memory limit? - Microsoft Windows

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we (me and my co-worker) are experiencing a strange problem with
windows for several years now and across all Windows versions.
After some time (sometimes two days, sometimes two weeks, depending on
usage) there seems to be a constantly ...

Window or other memory limit?

we (me and my co-worker) are experiencing a strange problem with
windows for several years now and across all Windows versions.

After some time (sometimes two days, sometimes two weeks, depending on
usage) there seems to be a constantly decreasing limit of windows and
other graphical objects.

When the effect occurs, Windows won't open another - for example -
browser window. Context menus of all applications have entries
missing. Sometimes they just lack the menu icons. Sometimes the whole
menu bar is gone. Some (but not all) application complain about
insufficient memory.
To make work possible again we have to close one or more windows, but
a little later it will occur again with even fewer windows allowed.

Using many Internet Explorer windows seems to provoke the effect. Also
using Adobe Photoshop is a reliable way to trigger it.

This has been reproducible on all Windows PCs I've seen over years
(quite a few!) and on Windows 2000, XP and even Vista.
Other co-workers don't suffer from this problem, but we suspect this
is because they just use fewer windows/applications.

Where can this come from?

Regards,
André

Re: Window or other memory limit?

Most likely low resources because of leakage. This was a big problem with Win3x, and to a lesser extent with Win9x. This problem was supposed to have been fixed with WinNT with its (almost) unlimited resources. The only known fix is to reboot.

André Hänsel wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we (me and my co-worker) are experiencing a strange problem with
> windows for several years now and across all Windows versions.
>
> After some time (sometimes two days, sometimes two weeks, depending on
> usage) there seems to be a constantly decreasing limit of windows and
> other graphical objects.
>
> When the effect occurs, Windows won't open another - for example -
> browser window. Context menus of all applications have entries
> missing. Sometimes they just lack the menu icons. Sometimes the whole
> menu bar is gone. Some (but not all) application complain about
> insufficient memory.
> To make work possible again we have to close one or more windows, but
> a little later it will occur again with even fewer windows allowed.
>
> Using many Internet Explorer windows seems to provoke the effect. Also
> using Adobe Photoshop is a reliable way to trigger it.
>
> This has been reproducible on all Windows PCs I've seen over years
> (quite a few!) and on Windows 2000, XP and even Vista.
> Other co-workers don't suffer from this problem, but we suspect this
> is because they just use fewer windows/applications.
>
> Where can this come from?
>
> Regards,
> André